A deaf 3-year-old from Nebraska is being asked by the school district to change his name, his family alleges, because the way he refers to himself in sign language resembles “weapons.”
Apparently the Grand Island school district has a policy that prevents students from bringing “any instrument…that looks like a weapon” to school, and now hands can be considered “instruments.”
“Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way,” Hunter Spanjer’s grandmother Janet Logue said.
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I have a "sign language" for the school district that they could understand, easily, using just one finger!
Only a college educated kook could come up with that.
why the hell is this retard in with normal kids? put him in with his own type and theres no problem.
anon 2:55 - you can't be serious.
2:55, so if someone is deaf, they are a retard? Wow. Glad you're not this kid's parent.
yes, i am serious. hundreds, if not thousands, of people trying to adapt and change for one person makes no damn sense at all. entitlements end now.
I wouldn't want my child in a school with educators that dumb. Poor child, he is doing the best he can.
255 - just because he is deaf doesn't mean he is slow or retarded in any way. Its obvious you have no one around you that is deaf or you would never say anything so blatantly stupid.
Stand firm and don't change the child's name. I hear lawsuit coming.
Wow 2:55, should we put you with your own type? My parents are both Deaf. My mother has a Master's Degree and taught High School for over 25 years. My mother is my hero. She attended hearing schools and a hearing college (while raising children and working full time for AT&T) - she is completely Deaf. My father worked in NYC for a large bank for over 30 years. Never took a dime from the government and raised hearing children. Where do you think they belong? If people like you been in charge of their education, they probably would have collected SSI right out of High School. Instead, the those in charge empowered them to overcome people like you and now they are highly successful. They are certainly not the only Deaf people I know that are successful. The only difference between my parents and myself is that they can't HEAR. That's it! Why can't some people refrain from judging and inserting their opinion on topics that have absolutely nothing to do with them?
Forgive the errors in my post, I was quite upset. I meant *had* been and omitted the *the*. Yikes, I'm not usually that bad!!
8:51...stand tall, baby. Its crossing the line when these pansy-ass educators with PhD's in eductation look at a deaf child making sign language and find "danger" or a reason to create "fear" where there is neither. The sad part (other than 2:55's neanderthal and insulting ideas) is that a teacher(s) and administrator(s) actually thought that telling parents that they need to CHANGE THEIR CHILD'S NAME (!!) in order to CONFORM to the current polictically correct system they've installed was a reasonable request. That, in itself, tells a great deal about the state of our nation.
I watched the clip. The question that popped into my mind a couple of minutes later, after I was imitating the sign language shows was, What about all the times we have all crossed our fingers on both hands hoping for some specific outcome?
So, there's not going to be anymore crossing fingers allowed?
This is ridiculous!!!
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